Posts tagged: Patrick Cuninghame

The injection of energy and vitality into the Mexican presidential campaign by the student movement #YoSoy132, with elecion day on 1 July, raises a number of questions about where recent events may be headed. The central pillar of this diverse and, at times, inchoate mobilisation remains the campaign against media corruption allied with concern over electoral fraud linked to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its candidate Enrique Peña Nieto supported by Televisa, as detailed in my previous blog post on the struggle for democracy in Mexico.

For the movement itself, a protest outside Televisa Chapultepec in Mexico City unfolded on June 13, which crowns a series of demonstrations including the prominent march along Paseo de la Reforma to El Ángel de la Independencia, pictured. This recent protest, following assemblies at key public universities including the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM), was packed with important symbolism.

With thanks to Patrick Cuninghame at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Xochimilco in Mexico City, the first communiqué of the YoSoy132 movement was released today. The manifesto is available in Spanish, Italian, English, Catalan, Náhuatl, Portuguese, German, Basque and Esperanto at YoSoy132 Internacional. It states: